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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OATHARINE M. HAMILTON, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

CONVERTIBLE CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,283, dated February 2, 1886. Application filed October 10, 1884. Serial No. 145,123. (No model.)

To a, whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CATHARINE M. HAMIL- TON, a resident of the city of Decatur, county of Macon, and Stateof Illinois, have invented a certain Combined Clothes Rack, Ironing- Board, Cloth-Receptacle, and Chair, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in various parts, combinations, and improvements in the construction and arrangement of a combined clothes-rack, ironing-board, cloth-receptacle, and chair, as set forth in detail in the following specification and claims.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a side elevation of the chair, cloth-receptacle, and clothes-rack,with the ironing-board detached. Fig. 2 is a plan of the clothes-rack. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the ironing-board. Fig. 4 shows the ironing-board in position for use, with one end resting 011 the chair. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of my complete device.

a is the frame of the chair. I) is the bottom of the same.

0 is a receptacle for ironing-cloths formed in the bottom of the chair.

at and e are swinging supports for clothesrack f.

k is the ironing-board, provided with legs, which are hinged to the board at 0 0.

m is a spring that is used to hold the frame I open or closed.

n is a hook used to support board It in the position shown in Fig. 5.

9 represent the rounds of frame f.

it shows an auxiliary frame, provided with rounds z and adapted to slide on rounds g.

In the position shown in Fig. 5, all the parts of my device are compactly arranged and adapted to be used as an ordinary chair.

To prepare for ironing, the ironing-cloths are removed from receptacle 0, the ironingboald is disconnected from the clothes-rack, the rack is elevated to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and spread out, as

shown in the dotted lines in Fig. 2, and the board is adjusted as shown in Fig. 4, and secured to the chair-frame by means of pin 10 passing through holep and a corresponding hole in the chair-frame.

The cloth-receptacle 0 (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1) may be constructed in any suitable manner, and may be provided witha drawer,with a sliding lid,or with a hinged lid, as may be found preferable.

The chair-frame may be constructed after any suitable form, and the construction of the clothes-rack may be somewhat modified without affecting the principle of my invention.

The braces d and e are arranged in duplicate on opposite sides of the chair.

The extensible portion h of the clotl1es-rack increases the capacity of the same without increasing the bulk of the device when not in operation; and the said extensible portion consists,simply,in a rack-frame provided with sliding bearings in the side of rack f.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with a chair-frame, of a clothes-rack, f, secured to the chair by means of swinging braces d 6, adapted to act as a back for the chair, and also adapted to be elevated to a horizontal position above the chair-frame, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of frame a, rack f, swinging braces d e, and table-top k, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with a frame, a, and swinging supports d e, of rack f g h 2', adapted to be expanded, as set forth.

4.. The combination, with frame a and rack f, of board It, provided with folding legs I, hook it, holep, and connecting-pin p, as and for the purpose set forth.

Attest:

I. D. WALKER,

L. P. GRAHAM. 

